Word: repayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peterson's report suggests several long-term solutions to the scholarship problem. One that has been suggested elsewhere would allow students to borrow all the money they need from their university or the government, then repay the loan as a percentage of their income for the rest of their lives...
...order to save his son's love life, Louis's father sacrifices his honor, stealing a trumpet from a music store in Billings, Montana. Before winning Serena, Louis resolves to repay his father's debt by working as a trumpeter. One of his jobs is as a trumpeter playing "Row, Row Your Boat" while swimming in front of the swan boats in the Public Garden in Boston ("Boston, which . . . is famous for its baked beans, its codfish, its tea parties, its Cabots, its Lowells, its Saltonstalls, and its Swan Boats.") He earns fame in Boston, and gets a ten-week...
...comes into the Zoo on a gale one night-blown from Montana to Philly-and falls madly in love with Louis, who wakens her with "Beautiful Dreamer" on his trumpet. They return to Montana to give his father Louis's accumulated earnings (minus expenses) of $4420.78 with which to repay the music store. Louis and Serena live happily ever after, migrating between Canada and Montana with yearly cross-country tours to show the kids where Louis spent his youth, overcoming his speech defect and restoring grandpa's honor. And every year the swanboatmen treats the parent swans to a night...
...keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive; maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic; patronize posh watering places even if you have to nurse your drinks. Never niggle when short of cash. "Borrow big, but always repay promptly...
...under way with France's Renault. Another likely member is Italy's Fiat, which is building a huge auto plant in Stavropol, which was renamed Togliatti in honor of the late Italian Communist leader. Daimler-Benz wants help in financing the $1.09 billion project; the Soviets will repay the loan over a long term at rates to be settled later...